St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11

have been limited to these facts. The
entire history of the Flour City is COM
pressed into the limits of that time dur
ing which the DemOcra cy went hungry
and thirsty. President Gle veland will
see a city grown great during one
interregnum. and will probably grasp
the hands of a dozen men who
have watched it from infancy. While
cities in the SlOwly-moying East have
scarcely changed in typographical ap-
pearance this beautiful city has sprung
up on wilderness of prairie. Only
twenty-five or thirty years and vet
what a change, And after all, what an
array OF names can be conjured up of
men who saw it all and know it aIl-Who
were the seeds SOwn from st. Anthony
and have bl0SSOmed out into the fabu-
lOus population of Minneapolis Most
of them have grown old and gray, but
they are the only landmarks of "a period
that cannot be recalled by buildings.
There is r. p. Russell, for example, who
voted for Frank Pierce and has followed
this Democratic line down to Cleveland.
One sweep of his minds eye can take in
the change from waving prairie grass to
well lined avenue and. boulevard and
can follow his Squatter'S claim from
nothing up to thousands. Franklin
Steele has gone, but his family is here,
with the vast holdings that
then amounted to nothing but
claims. The only and origi-
nal John II. Stevens is still here, but his
great possessions have nearly all passed
into other hands. j. II. Thompson is
here, and is a tailor still, young and
happy. K. l.. Stillman, now rich and
prosperous, was then callow fiedgling.
uncertain whether to pitch into law in
st. Anthony or farming along Nicollet.
John S. Pillsbury was weighing out
nails and selling hatchetS while dream
ing Of political honors which soon came
and passed. Peter Wolford was here
and was studying those lessons of econ
Omy which have proved worth millions
to him. Anthony Kelly, now million
aire grocer. was then in business with
his brother Z. H., in the days before
the latter became a merchant prince,
while John 1. Black, now member of
the firm, was struggling with the calico
trade in st. Anthony. o. NJ. Lar
raway may not enjoy the visit. He will
remember, however, the entire history
but he gained political favor and became
postmaster. His successor, John J.
Ankeny, will also remember the old
times when the little village was fight
ing for existence on the west bank. w.
Z. Ankeny began his career at the same
time, and A. T. Ankeny was first learn
ing the mysteries of Coke upon Little
ton. Mike Hoy was then a broth of an
Irish boy and had not achieved fame,
while his friend, George A Bracket,
was butcher, and had not obtained a
war contract for beef. W. W. Wales is
still on deck, and will recall with a smile
that he was then town clerk of st.
Anthony. Henry T. Welles, now a mill
1onalre banker, had already sized up the
coming greatness of Minneapolis. and
was laying but the corner lots that are
now worth their millions. Judge Isaac
Atwater will to-day acknowledge him
self Democrat, and will recall the
time when he edited the Democrat
and supported the administration
of Pierce. Judge William Loeb
rem will also admit himself
an Out-and-Out Bourbon, and tells how
he voted for Cleveland, and was sorry
he was not old enough to vote for
Pierce. There is J. 3. Bottineau. who
will be quite reminiscent this day and
will say he can recall the first ball0t-bOX
Ing the first vote in it. The whole BaS
sett family belong to this period, and all
are Democrats without a flaw to-day.
Joel was iii lumber from the beginning,
and Daniel was figuring in trade, while
VIII had just opened his baby eyes upon
the infant Flour City. E. NJ. Wilson
and w. W. McNair moved in about the
beginning of the interregnum The
latter has gone, but the former is still
in the front rank and will greet tie
PRESIDENT as Democrat and brother
.. Y. Gale was in the neighborhOod, too,
and has the events jotted down in
work which his grandchildren NAV pub
liSh. c. ii. Petit enjoyed the cold win
tiers at that tune, and was even then an
aevocate of abolition and the Blair
bill. Of course the Ames family
was here,s though Albert AlonZo
had not dreamed of creating breeze in
politics: but his father, the doctor, and
his uncle, the judge, were among the
first on the ground. John G. Oswald
can remember the entire time, and was
among the first to cast vote in Mime
apolis. T. K. Gray has sold drugs from
time immemOrial, and is selling them
yet. He sold the first face powder ever
used in Minneapolis, and it is rumored
j. R. Hoffiin wore it. Charles Hoag
Will rejoice this day, and if he gets the
opportunity will tell President Cleve-
land he named the city. Elder l.. NJ
Stewart was a tender tailor when Min
neapolis was born and has been making
money ever since. DOriluS Morrison
arrived with the first installment, and
will probably stay until the last getting
richer all the time. Martin Lay
man came early and grew rich
out of cemetery in which his
remains now rest. Scion Armstrong
came in with st. Anthony, and has lived
There ever since, never crossing the
river except to attend political conven-
tons. DIR. Chute is one of the fathers
OF the first East side settlement, and
gave name to the tunnel that narrowly